Lotus has given the green light to a new Lotus Esprit featuring the V10 from the Lexus LF-A. Scheduled to hit the road in 2012. Back in September – when we reported that Lotus had delivered the first Evora to a customer – we noted that the success of the Evora would underpin the future […]
Geely plan to double Volvo sales
Volvo buyer Geely has plans to double Volvo sales, open production in China and add new models above the current range. Geely – Ford’s preferred bidder for Volvo – has big plans to turn round the Swedish car maker, according to reports. Central to these will be the building of a new plant in China […]
Arash AF-10 – almost ready
Arash Farboud has released details of his British Supercar – the Arash AF10 – featuring carbon fibre bodywork and chassis and 550bhp. Arash Farboud likes the idea of making supercars. He was responsible for the Farboud GTS which eventually became the Farbio, and he’s been busy working on his new creation – the Arash AF-10 […]
Ariel Atom V8- Price update
Ariel has announced that the new V8 Atom will cost £120,000 when it goes on sale in 2010. Just 25 are being built. Back in May we reported that the Ariel Atom V8 was in the pipeline, a range-topping 500bhp version of Atom’s road-track monster. Which is twice as much power as the standard Atom […]
2010 Nissan Qashqai facelift
Nissan will launch the 2010 Qashqai and Qashqai+2 in March 2010, with engine updates, a new nose and trim upgrades. Update 4/12/2009: We now have pictures of the 2010 Nissan Qashqai. The Nissan Qashqai has been a big success for Nissan. A very able crossover / Estate / SUV thingy, it has certainly made its […]
Jaguar R Performance Academy Launched
Jaguar has announced the launch of the Jaguar R Performance Academy in the US to teach high-end driving skills to owners of performance Jaguars. With Jaguar going from strength to strength with its performance models (like the Jaguar XFR) they obviously feel it’s not just good PR but good sense to get owners as au […]
Nissan GT-R 2010 UK updates
Nissan has released details of the 2010 GT-R for the UK and Europe with a host of minor changes and updates to keep the four seat supercar at the top. At the Tokyo Motor Show Nissan brought along the 2010 Nissan GT-R with a raft of minor tweaks and adjustments for their supercar killing four […]
Renault Gordini Return Confirmed
As we reported last week, Renault has confirmed that they are to bring back the Gordini badge to Renaults, starting with the Renault Twingo Gordini RS. We’ve known this was on the cards for a while – the return of the Gordini badge – and we reported last week that Renault were going to announce […]
Citroen C-Zero debuts
Citroen has revealed their version of the Mitsubishi M-iEV electric city car – the Citroen C-Zero – which will launch at the end of 2010. That Mitsubishi M-iEV certainly gets around. Apart from Mitsubishi’s own version we’ve already had Peugeot’s iON version of the M-iEV electric car and now we get the Citroen C-Zero. The […]
Volvo S60 (2010) – first official photos
A year after the first teaser images of the Volvo S60 were released Volvo has finally got round to releasing the first official images of the production S60. It’s been almost a year since we first reported on the Volvo S60. Volvo had released some teaser images of the S60 and we speculated – unkindly, […]